{UAH} God Mulindwa likes this woman. White House Aide Kellyanne Conway ‘Counseled’ After Plugging Ivanka Trump’s Products
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A Congressional committee said on Thursday it was seeking a review into whether senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway had violated ethics rules by using her position to promote product lines of President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, a day after he attacked a retailer for dropping them.
Federal ethics rules prohibit executive branch employees from using their positions to endorse products or for the private gain of friends. The law does not apply to the president.
"Go buy Ivanka's stuff ... I'm going to go get some myself today," Conway told Fox News in an interview from the White House. "I'm going to give a free commercial here: Go buy it today, everybody."
Republican Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight committee, said late on Thursday in a statement he had agreed to a request by a member of the panel to ask the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) to review Conway's comments and recommend disciplinary action against her if warranted.
Chaffetz and Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the committee, said in their letter to the ethics office: "Conway's statements appear to violate federal ethics regulations, which prohibit actions that imply a government endorsement of the 'personal activities' of another person."
"In this case, there is an additional challenge, which is that the president, as the ultimate disciplinary authority for White House employees, has an inherent conflict of interest since Conway's statements relate to his daughter's private business," they said.
The OGE did not respond to requests for comment.
Asked at a press briefing on Thursday if Conway had crossed an ethical line, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said, "She has been counseled on that subject, and that's it."
Conway, asked in an interview on Fox News on Thursday evening how she had been counseled, replied: "I'm not going to comment on that."
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